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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Six, eight, ten years ago, Walls routinely produced 4, 5 even half a dozen National Merit Scholarship semifinalists annually.  Here in the 2020s, there are zero some years.[/quote]

So, here is the list of schools in DC and number of 2023 NMSFs:

Maret - 1
JR - 1
NCS - 2
STA - 3
GDS - 4
Sidwell -5
Walls - 6 (I am not NMSF...but I think that is 1/2 a dozen)

Look at the Presidential Scholars as well which is based primarily on SAT Scores and Walls has the most in DC.

Why do people post demonstrably false information?[/quote]

This is a terrible look for JR! That school has nearly 5 times the number of students as Walls and it only produced ONE (1) NMSF?!?

Sad.[/quote]

How is it a terrible look for JR but not Maret or NCS? Number of kids that attend is irrelevant when you have schools with cultivated student bodies.  I am not saying it couldn’t be better…but terrible?  Also, JR is about 3.3x larger.

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This is a public school forum and I’m ONLY commenting on public schools.  Once again, this is a terrible look for JR.  JR is not a school where your child will receive a strong education—this is just one example.

Btw, JR is about 4x larger than Walls (600 students/grade compared to 150).  [/quote]

This is a problem that has already been solved. None of these schools has some secret formula for building NMSFs. Walls used to attract and identify them using the exam. The exam is dead, so the number of high-scoring kids at JR (and Banneker and McKinley and maybe Maret and GDS and other privates, too) will go up. [/quote]

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